Pamela Ives
LMT, PLC
“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us”
-Joseph Campbell
Sacred Ground:
Reflections from 26 Years of Bodywork
The human body has been an endless source of fascination, reverence, and curiosity for me.
The shapes we hold, the gestures we make, the ways we move, brace, soften, and reach — all of it carries something of our life story. Our emotions, adaptations, longings, and divinity are woven into the body. To me, this is sacred ground.
I am a bodywork practitioner with more than two and a half decades of experience attuning to the rhythms, expressions, and intelligence of the body. Every person is unique in the way they carry, manage, and integrate their life experience. In the quiet spaces of spas, treatment rooms, retreat centers, and private offices, I have developed a deep respect for the body’s wisdom and the stories they tell in the quietude.
My interest in healing through the body became deeply personal in my early twenties while studying biology and psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. During that time, I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease considered incurable. I felt betrayed by my body, as though it was no longer a safe place to inhabit. Depression, numbness, and confusion followed. I felt lost.
That experience led me to seek forms of healing that addressed the whole person, not just symptom management. The body had become the place of my struggle, and eventually, the body became the way home. Healing through the body has been my path of return — to trust, presence, and a deeper relationship with myself.
I wanted to understand more, and I wanted to help others reconnect with their own bodies in this way.
I completed my massage therapy training at the Colorado School of Healing Arts in Lakewood in 2000. Since then, I have remained committed to learning, practicing, and embodying new dimensions of bodywork and healing. Over the course of my career, I have completed thousands of hours of training and continuing education.
In the most recent decade, I have studied extensively at the Colorado School of Energy Studies in Boulder, with training in Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Polarity Life Coaching, Biodynamic Perception, and Embryological Morphology. These studies have deepened my understanding of the body as a living field of intelligence, relationship, memory, and possibility.
Throughout my career, I have worked alongside chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, and other healing practitioners. I have assisted in teaching bodywork techniques, practiced in day spa and retreat settings, and have been in private practice since 2013.
After many years of touch therapy, my vision of working with the body has expanded. I no longer see bodywork as limited to what happens through physical contact alone. The body, mind, and spirit are inseparable; when one thread is touched, the whole being responds.
Where physical touch is limited by proximity, I have come to trust the permeating power of presence. In remote sessions, when a client places their own hands on an area of the body asking for attention, they are drawing on their own capacity to listen, attune, and care for themselves. My role is to meet them with another layer of support, allowing the body to soften, rest, and feel less alone in holding its experience.
In more than 25 years of practice, I have worked with thousands of clients of all ages and in many different stages of health. With each person, I bring knowledge, experience, intuition, and deep respect for the body’s inherent wellness — the part of us that remains present, even in difficulty.
My work is an invitation to you to decompress, reconnect, and remember the wisdom already alive within your body.
Be well,
Pam